Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history?… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex nihilo sui… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image